Trinational Automated Mobility
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Safe, environmentally conscious and flexible, these are the central requirements for the future mobility. In the European border region between Germany, France and Luxembourg, mobility in the world of work and pleasure is a decisive factor. It must be simple, affordable and available to all. The automation and intelligent connection of road traffic plays an important role in this. Due to the distributed settlement structure with many small towns and village and a few central hot spots, a fully available public transport is very complex and expensive and only a few bus and train lines exist. In this context, the trinational research project TERMINAL aims to establish a cross-border automated minibus in regular traffic and to explore the user acceptance for commuter traffic. Additionally, mobility on demand services are tested, and both will be embedded within the existing public transport infrastructure.
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